c1860s CDV Photo of Prince Alfred in Royal Navy Captain's Uniform
$ 5.28
Description
c1860s CDV Photo of Prince Alfred in Royal Navy Captain's Uniform. While the studio is unidentified, the portrait was most likely taken in Australia during the prince's royal tour of the Australian colonies. They are indeed real photographs, not photos of paintings or photos of photos, and collectors call them "album fillers". I am currently offering 19th century cartes-de-visite photos found in a disintegrating period mother-of-pearl album from New Zealand. The photos were collected by and given to a prominent early Dunedin New Zealand settler and colonist named Rob Redmayne, and many of the CDVs in this album feature identified, prominent individuals from the colonial and New Zealand Gold Rush time. Many were taken in prominent New Zealand photographic studios in the Dunedin and Otago region. The identified photographs were verified through image/location searches, perusal of New Zealand museum archives containing identified historic photos, and, in some cases, Wikipedia pages. This is a CDV photo of H.R.H. Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh and Knight Companion (that is what the "K.C." in the caption in the negative refers to) in his Royal Navy Captain's uniform. While the studio is unidentified, the portrait was most likely taken in Australia during the prince's royal tour of the Australian colonies. The photographic technology to produce the smaller cartes-de-visites (CDVs) was only a few years old at the time this portrait was taken, and it became popular for those who could afford to keep a CDV photo album at the time to collect commercially sold photographic prints of famous and notable individuals who sat for a portrait in the lucky photographic studios that sold them. They are indeed real photographs, not photos of paintings or photos of photos, and collectors call them "album fillers". PLEASE NOTE THAT A GREAT MANY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THIS ALBUM WERE INSCRIBED "REDMAYNE" OR "R. REDMAYNE" ON THE BACK DESPITE BEING OF MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE--AND SOMETIMES CONTAINING A DIFFERENT NAME AS WELL. REDMAYNE WAS NOT THE SUBJECT OF THESE PHOTOS; HE WAS THE COLLECTOR OF THEM, THE OWNER OF THE ALBUM THEY WERE FOUND IN. HIS NAME WAS INSCRIBED ON THE BACKS EITHER BY THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE HIM THE PHOTOS OR BY THE STUDIOS HE ORDERED PRINTS FROM. International buyers, this will be shipped USPS as a non-machinable letter in a rigid cardboard mailer. I offer combined shipping.
